Interesting choice for ESPN to add commercial breaks (“we’ll pick up right where we left off”) to an F1 race that everyone’s going to be watching on DVR anyway (and thus skipping said commercials). What weird kind of contractual obligation is this? 🏎️
Just sent out the first set of private beta invites for Smolblog. 😬
TBT to when the internet went out and I worked from a Starbucks (because their internet wasn’t from the local cable company and therefore still worked).
…haven’t worked from a coffee shop since. 🙃
TIL a Time Machine backup can fail because the disk you’re backing up (not the disk you’re backing up to) is too full. 🫠
Thought I was going to send out some closed beta invites this weekend, but I ran into a snag with my last-pass testing. The good news is, I think this means custom domains and fediverse handles are coming sooner than expected…
I’m trying to customize the account registration page in WordPress. The hooks for adding fields work fine, but not the hooks for validating. I can only assume that, because it’s multisite, it works differently? Because reasons?
Am I actually going to launch manually creating user accounts?
Working on a color scheme… I don’t think I need any interface colors besides primary, secondary, error, and neutral, right? I know a lot of the off-the-shelf systems have “success” and “info” and “danger” (not to be confused with “error”), but I also feel like I never use those.
If you’ve been interested in Smolblog and you haven’t signed up for the mailing list, now’s a pretty good time.
Just saying… 😇
OK, let’s try this monorepo business…
https://blog.logrocket.com/hosting-all-your-php-packages-together-in-a-monorepo/
Setting up test coverage checks for the framework behind Smolblog.
Tested lines: 100%
Saw that there was an option for testing lines, branches, and paths.
Tested paths: 38%
Saw how many tests I would need for full path coverage.
Decided to test branches instead.
File this one under “comically and colossally missing the point.”
Just stop, Apple. https://oddevan.com/2024/01/17/just-stop-apple.html
IT WORKS IT WORKS IT WORKS IT WORKS redacted because I don’t want you to follow my test account IT WORKS IT WORKS!!!
All these sports betting apps encouraging me to make sports “more exciting” and “mean more.”
No. I get my heart broken enough as it is.
Watching the NFL game, they’re showing the temperature difference between Kansas City and Miami. Mike Tirico narrates the temperature in Miami as “70 degrees.”
The on-screen graphic says 69°.
Sometimes I feel lucky that ADD is so socially “acceptable” these days. Today, though…
My pharmacy is out of the generic.
Insurance won’t cover the brand.
My prior auth expired two weeks ago.
My doc is closed Friday afternoons.
I can’t do any of this ahead of time because FDA.
This fucking sucks.
We’re not who we were, and I’m so glad we’ve been able to grow alongside and with each other. Happy anniversary, Brittany.
For those that celebrate, hope you are having a wonderful Christmas. Today’s joy is a six-sided keyboard switch tester that doubles as a fidget toy.
I will try not to annoy absolutely everyone. No promises.
Testing time…
From @brentsimmons’ post on adding Mastodon support to the RSS reader NetMewsWire:
"Such an app could be a nice unified experience. Get your Mastodon, Threads, RSS feeds, Micro.blog and, hopefully, other services — anything that supports ActivityPub, RSS, or some other open format or API — all in one place, in a way that’s already familiar to everyone."
That’s the second half of the plan for Smolblog. It’s under Beta Phase 2. Feedback and help is always appreciated.
https://micro.blog/brentsimmons https://inessential.com/2023/12/17/on_mastodon_support_in_netnewswire https://eph.me/sbkanban